Victorians have watched with horror as NSW hit triple figures – more than 1000 new cases a day. The resultant demand on hospitals in south-west Sydney from people with serious illnesses overwhelmed their emergency departments. Hospitals responded by creatingVictorian hospitals will be dusting off their emergency plans to help them face the foreshadowed. The big concern is the shortage of capacity in intensive care units. This is not a problem that can be overcome easily.
Secondly, hospitals – both public and private – need to be ready to reduce temporarily the number of elective procedures they perform, to free up capacity in ICUs and acute wards. Private hospitals should face significant penalties if they attempt to bypass public health orders and continue to perform low-priority procedures, as appears to have happened in 2020. And the state government should contract private hospitals to perform high-priority elective procedures on public patients.
Fourthly, as happened last year, hospitals should draw on the retired workforce to backfill where possible as other staff are redeployed to the pointy end of care, or are taken out of the workforce because they are infected or sick.As difficult as lockdowns and restrictions are, the public needs to continue to support government in fighting the virus, and protecting hospital capacity, by maintaining restrictions, especially for the unvaccinated.
Just like everyone else in the world, we have invested bugger all in health and now we are running scared and locking down at a sneeze and won't reopen for some yrs to come. All those roads though look great!
What? Why?
doubtful
No stretched enough for TikTok Videos though!
The Age should just be honest with it’s readers and admit that it loves Scott Morrison and the Liberals and that they can do no wrong. Whereas The Age hates Labor and will do anything to keep them out of office
paulsakkal Only had 14 months to prepare.
Seems every hospital system in every state was under stress prior to Covid. One does wonder how well state governments manage these core service deliveries? Not very well it seems.
The issue I have is the pure focus on covid I am concerned that people will not get the treatment they need for a life threatening or changing illness. We must be able to balance. This article just adds to the fear. Truth is private hospitals do work of public hospitals
Wasted many many months - all our eggs in one basket with a massive hole in it.
But The Age says let’s open up! Because “hope”. Hope is not a strategy.
I guess putting all out taxpayer dollars solely into infrastructure has really paid of for all Victorians. Who needs hospital beds when we have brand new bridges to sleep under!
ScottMorrisonMP The worse Prime Minister Australia has known
18 months to plan. It’s a pandemic.
Where's the 4000 ICU beds Dan promised?
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